by William T. Vollmann · Actes Sud · tapa dura · ISBN 9782742752058
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«La Famille royale» is the novel by William T. Vollmann published by Actes Sud in hardcover, 937 pages, in French.
Henry Tyler, a private detective, searches San Francisco for the legendary Queen of the Whores on behalf of a businessman who wants to exploit her in a virtual brothel. He falls in love with her and joins her Royal Family: prostitutes marked by crack. His brother John, a well-off lawyer, represents the other side of that society.
Translation by Christophe Claro of the original «The Royal Family» (2000), published in 2004; the work won the California Book Award.
Extensive novel for readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in the unflinching portrait of the margins of American society.
